DokuWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PmWiki vs. Foswiki

General Features DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki Foswiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.13
2.3.33
2.1.8
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2024-04-20 (15 days ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2024-04-21 (14 days ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
family people, hackers
All
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki Foswiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
None
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Optional
Plugin
Development/Support DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
67 ⭐
N/A
97 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki Foswiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Interface Languages
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki Foswiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Perl
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki Foswiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Output DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki Foswiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
No
No
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki Foswiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
__underlined__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
Plugin
no example known
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
----
---
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